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Wichita, Kansas Area

• Lead all aspects of the organization’s internal and external communications• Manage a communication department consisting of both full-time employees and outside contractors

Wichita, Ks

• Manage vendor team of more than 10 independent contractors and outside firms• Serve as organizational liaison for all projects involving an advertising agency• Lead on redesign/reformatting of annual report, leading to cost savings of 75 percent• Responsible for public awareness campaign achieving 80 percent statewide reach• Plan and execute all news conferences and media events• Responsible for organizational media and public relations efforts• Manage all organizational publications• Determine and manage all community sponsorships• Lead all phases of comprehensive television and media campaigns• Develop and execute all organizational marketing and media plans• Oversee all aspects of special events

Wichita, Ks

• Responsible for projects with budgets totaling more than $15 million and involving more than 250 participants• Leadership of project teams ranging from five to seven members• Project management and production responsibilities on all organizational publications• Management of community-based and mass media marketing campaigns• Work with more than 30 Kansas communities on local communication plans• Serve on organization’s strategic planning team• Primary contact point for media and public relations efforts• Development of approval process for grant proposals, decreasing timeline by two weeks• Conduct marketing and communications trainings for organizations and communities• Develop all organizational media and communications plans• Serve as primary contact for organization’s website• Responsible for e-newsletter, which has increased readership by more than 200 percent in the past two years

Wichita, Ks

• Drafted public speeches for organizational leadership• Conducted community-based market research• Maintained organization databases related to media, vendors and partners• Wrote press releases, newsletter articles and internal communication pieces

Wichita, Ks

• Assisted Associate Vice President of University Relations with university marketing plans• Developed contact databases for targeted media relations and marketing efforts• Conducted primary market research with student groups and faculty

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Communication